The guards guarding the gate hurriedly went in to report, and after returning soon, they let them in. Wang Xian became the first person in history to be carried into the Yamen of the Ministry of War.
Erhei carried him into the custody room of Shangshu Yamen, and trouble came again... He really didn't know how to place his master's injured buttocks.
"The doctor ordered me to stay in bed for the next few days," Erhei whispered and discussed with Jin Shangshu's attendant: "How about you bring a bed?"
"Huh?" Chang Sui had never heard of such a request before, so he glared and said, "Do you still need to lay out a mat?"
"Thank you very much. But the doctor said you shouldn't catch a cold." Erhei chuckled.
"Stop talking nonsense." Wang Xian scolded Erhei lightly, and said to Chang Sui: "I just lie down on the ground.
"What does that look like?" Chang Sui's mind came to an image of a minister having to stare at other people's butts to talk. It was so unbecoming: "You can't kneel down?"
"My buttocks are all smashed." Wang Xian smiled bitterly and said, "I can't feel my lower body."
"Then we can't stand anymore?" Chang Sui said depressedly.
"You can't sit down either." Erhei added in a low voice.
"You are so beautiful." Chang Suibai glanced at the two of them and said, "Why are you so injured?"
"That's what you said," Erhei said angrily, "It was your subordinate who called me here, okay? The doctor said that my master needs to rest."
"Shut up." Changsui glared at him angrily, put three official hat chairs in a row, and asked Wang Xian to lie on them. He thought to himself, "What's going on? This is all," and asked them to wait.
, go in and report by yourself.
It took a long time before Jin Shangshu finished handling the matters at hand and came out. He is a gentleman of Neo-Confucianism and pays attention to respecting etiquette in words and deeds. When he saw Wang Xian lying on the chair, he felt particularly awkward. He coughed twice and said, "Don't look at anything inappropriate."
I didn’t know you were injured.”
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for not being able to perform the courtesy properly." Wang Xian looked at Jin Shangshu's belt and said.
"I heard that you ate forty military sticks?" Jin Shangshu asked.
"Originally, I was going to hit eighty, but His Highness Taisun was kind enough to write down half of it."
"Why do you eat military sticks?"
"There is an officer who violates discipline and goes out at night and fights in a restaurant. According to military law, he should be punished with eighty sticks." Wang Xian replied: "I am a military advisor. I am not strict in controlling my subordinates. I am unworthy of trusting His Highness. Naturally, I will be punished together."
"You really know how to put gold on your face." Jin Shangshu snorted coldly: "Why is it different from what I heard?"
"What did you hear, sir?"
"I heard that you and the Xue brothers brought people to the brothel to eat flower wine, but because of jealousy, they got into a fight." Jin Shangshu said coldly. But no matter how cold he was, he couldn't be half as cold as Zhou Zhitai, so he didn't kill Wang Xian at all.
force.
"My lord, you are unjust when you say this. I neither drank wine nor was I jealous." Wang Xian flatly denied it and said, "If you don't believe me, you can send someone to investigate and see if I lied."
"I am busy with official duties and have no time to talk to you." Jin Shangshu said with a sullen face: "Do you remember what I told you at the beginning? As long as you dare to mess around, I will drive you out of the capital."
"But..." Wang Xian smiled bitterly and was about to explain, when the long follower came in, leaned in Jin Shangshu's ear and reported something.
After hearing this, Jin Shangshu frowned tightly, stood up and said to Chang Sui: "Go in and talk."
As he spoke, he ignored Wang Xian and entered the security room. When the chief followed him in, he asked directly: "Are you telling the truth?"
"Yes." Chang Sui nodded and said with a look of disbelief: "These words were said by Taisun's younger brother himself. There shouldn't be any lies."
"Impossible..." Jin Shangshu picked up the ice towel on the table, wiped his sweat and said: "Master Daoyan still refuses to accept me as his disciple, how can this kid be so virtuous..." He convinced himself halfway through the words
Said: "But this can explain why Taisun let this boy become a military advisor."
Chang Sui nodded, deeply convinced.
"It's not going to be easy now..." Jin Shangshu wiped his sweat again in embarrassment and said: "The flood really washed away the Dragon King Temple..."
Speaking of which, Jin Shangshu has a close relationship with Yao Guangxiao. He is a rare scholar with both civil and military talents among officials of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in a military household, but he was not the eldest son, so it was not his turn to take up a military position. He studied since he was a child and prepared to stand out in the imperial examinations.
, who knew something unexpected happened, and his brother died while guarding Tongzhou, so he had to join the army and went to Peking to inherit the military position. Because he was a rare scholar in the army, he quickly gained some fame, and was dedicated to swaying the King of Yan.
The rebellious Yao Guangxiao found out.
What happened after that was really humiliating... Yao Guangxiao knew that he could use the "Book of Changes" to divine divination and had met Yuan Gong before, so he falsely claimed in front of Zhu Di that he was a student of Yuan Tianshi, and that he had a good fortune in divination. Later.
When Zhu Di was about to raise an army, he summoned him to tell fortunes, and he was able to cast the hexagram of Chengxuan. Jin Zhong followed Yao Guangxiao's instructions and said: The divination elephant is extremely valuable. From then on, he was often led in and out of the Yan Mansion by Yao Guangxiao.
The hexagram he held advised the King of Yan to do great things. It gave Zhu Di great confidence, and as a result, he became rich throughout his life.
Although Dao Yan only used him as a tool to seduce Zhu Di, he was still very grateful to this monk for allowing him to be appreciated by King Yan and have the opportunity to make a career. It was precisely because of his previous dealings with Dao Yan
, he will fully understand how terrifying this old monk is.
These two emotions were mixed together, forcing him to re-evaluate the price of selling Wang Xian to the King of Heroes. Originally, there was only a grandson with hairless hair on the other end of the scale. It was easy to distinguish which was more important, but now with the addition of
Yao Guangxiao leaned over again. After pacing the inner room for a moment, Jin Shangshu made up his mind and walked out. He sat down and said, "Where did you talk about just now?"
"Master Bu Tang said that he had warned me before that if I dared to cause trouble, I would be kicked out of the capital." Wang Xian said with a bitter smile.
"Well," Jin Shangshu touched his chin and said, "But you are not hopeless. Since you have been beaten with forty military sticks, you have been punished." He paused and said, "So I won't punish you this time.
, but there will never be a next time.”
Wang Xian still doesn't know that what the long follower brought to Jin Shangshu just now is the news that he is Yao Guangxiao's student. It seems that this status is much easier than the follower of Lao Shizi's grandson, but he doesn't know how long he can fool him.
.
In fact, Wang Xian also carried Zhu Gaochi's autographed letter with him, but he took it out only when he had no choice. Now that he saw that the other party had let him go, he naturally had no words to thank him and promised not to do this again.
"The young army has just been established. In a few months, it will take part in the Fangshan martial arts exercise. Time is tight and the task is heavy. If you have any difficulties, please feel free to ask." Since Jin Shangshu regarded him as Yao Guangxiao's person, he naturally wanted to say a few words of praise.
If you say that, the relationship will improve. But it is just a polite word, because when people have just received forgiveness from the other party, they are embarrassed to make any demands. This is human nature.
"Thank you for your concern. Speaking of which, I really have a difficult problem and asked for help." Unexpectedly, Wang Xian shamelessly climbed up the pole.
"In addition," Jin Shangshu coughed and decided to ask more clearly: "What is the relationship between you and Master Yao?"
"The old monk said he wanted to accept me as his disciple, and I also want to accept him as my teacher." Wang Xian replied cautiously. Speaking of which, these two sentences were not lies.
"Then have you become a disciple?" Jin Shangshu asked inquiringly.
"Goodbye," Wang Xian couldn't be vague now and could only lie: "But he didn't let me shave my head..."
"That's it." Jin Shangshu nodded, his eyelids drooped for a moment, and finally he said, "What problem do you have?"
"Just now, the department also said that we need to train young troops. The time is tight and the tasks are heavy." Wang Xian carefully looked at his face and said: "The biggest problem is the extreme shortage of officers. I wonder if the department has any way to solve it.
"
"As for officers, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of the Fifth Army." Jin Shangshu Yu Jian refused: "The Ministry of War is not responsible for this."
"My master said that I have been with you for many years, so I must have a way." Wang Xian said softly. He thought that since he had already used the old monk to show off, he didn't care about cheating him again.
"Master really said that?" Jin Shangshu frowned and said, "Master asked you to come to me?"
"No, the master just said it casually," Wang Xian shook his head and said, "I didn't mean to trouble the department.
"Haha..." Jin Shangshu immediately wiped his sweat and said: "Master Dao Yan is not an outsider. Since he said this, how can I be afraid of trouble." He sighed and said: "If there is a way,
I will definitely help you. But think about it, the Young Army is not a regular army, how can you transfer serving officers into it?
"You don't have to be on active duty, as long as you can lead troops, you can also be idle." Wang Xian is really hungry and has no choice but to eat.
"The idle ones are also under the control of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion." Jin Shangshu glanced at him and said: "Since you are a member of His Highness Taisun, you naturally know what the attitude of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion is?"
"Did Master lie to me?" Wang Xian said with a disappointed look on his face.
"Ahem..." Jin Shangshu finally couldn't stand him anymore and said, "Okay, now that I think about it, there is really someone under the control of the Ministry of War."
Wang Xian eagerly looked at Jin Shangshu, waiting for his next words.
"The emperor opened Enke the year before last and ordered the Ministry of War to hold a military examination." Jin Shangshu said: "You know what a military examination is, right?"
"Do you mean Wu Jinshi?" Wang Xian said with eyes shining.
"Don't say this nonsense, otherwise those guys who came from the imperial examination will be unhappy." Although Jin Shangshu is a famous official in Neo-Confucianism, he has never taken the imperial examination because he was born in the army. From time to time, he is ridiculed by those officials who came from the imperial examination.
Naturally, I don't have a good impression of them.
"What's your name if you don't call him Wu Jinshi?"
"Call me martial arts examiner." Jin Zhong said slowly: "The year before last, I was ordered to preside over the military examination of the Ministry of War. From more than 3,000 candidates, I selected more than 300 martial arts examination candidates. The emperor originally said that he would reuse them, but who knew
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"Why did the emperor change his mind?" Wang Xian said in disbelief. It didn't mean that the emperor's golden mouth opened, and he became a constitutional monarch.
"Actually, Your Majesty..." Jin Shangshu looked at Wang Xian and asked, "Is it appropriate to tell you this?" But considering that the other party was Yao Guangxiao's disciple, he continued: "There are times when you change your words."